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In general you shouldn't have to edit keywords directly when using Photo Supreme.
Create Catalog Labels instead. There's no need to avoid spaces or commas in catalog label names. On syncing, the catalog labels become keywords in the metadata

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Thanks Hert. I should have been more specific with my question. I was aware that catalog labels are the way to create keywords in PS, and that PS searches work fine with spaces and commas included. My question concerns whether other popular applications are also fine with spaces and commas in keywords. My worry stems from the fact that not all operating systems tolerate spaces in filenames.

Also, for the benefit of other novices like me, I will note something I learned very recently: Catalog labels become keywords only if the correct options are selected in the "details of the catalog label." Specifically, under "Metadata settings", the option "Create keyword for this label" must be selected and I believe you also must select option "Mapped to" dc:subject. I learned this when a catalog label failed to show up in keywords. Not sure how the correct options were not set by default, as they must have been for earlier labels I created.

When you create a catalog label then leave all the options as default. Just name it and you're done. Change other details only when needed. "Create keyword for this label" is the default for a new catalog label. Change this only if you don't want a keyword created for a catalog label (the catalog label then becomes private).

Mapped to" dc:subject

This is not needed.

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For the search bar, that doesn't matter. Space and hyphen are both word separators leading to the exact same search results.
But a hyphen is the character that is used for NOT operations, which should complicate searching.

For instance;
Consider a catalog label named John Doe. You say that you would create that as John-Doe

Using the search bar, when entering john-doe

This means john and NOT doe. So you you'd have to enter double quotes instead "john-doe" to get the expected result.

Personally I would say that John Doe plays better than John-Doe

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Spaces correspond to an "or" search. Hyphens to a "not" search. Personally I make all my label single words, if necessary with internal capitalisation, or I use an underscore "_" as a space equivalent. So JohnDoe or John_Doe. Seems to work for me.